Three early piano works by Dane Rudhyar, performed by Marcia Mikulak. The works heard are “Granites,” “The Quest”, which is the first movement of his “Nine Tetragrams,” and “Three Paeans.” Born in France in 1895, Rudhyar moved to the United States in 1916, where he soon became known as a ultra-modern composer whose ideas about dissonant harmony influenced such composers as Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles. Rudhyar was also a painter, philosopher, and author of many books about astrology, psychology, and the cyclical nature of civilization.

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